gas in Biological Technology

New clues about a hydrogen fuel catalyst

... a larger molecule, rather than compressing the gas into a tank. A gas flows easily out of a tank, but getting hydrogen ... molecular hydrogen, or H2 which is released as a gas and can be used in engines or fuel cells. ...

Aztech Controls Introduces Standardized Gas Sticks for Semiconductor Tool Hook Up

... Aztech Controls, an expert in chemical and gas handling has developed a standard gas stick that can be shipped from stock greatly ... inventoried, pre-engineered, assembled and tested gas sticks for ultra high purity (UHP) and general ...

Brooks Instrument Completes Acquisition of Celerity's Instrumentation Division

... leader in precision instruments and advanced gas and liquid delivery solutions for the global ... leader in precision instruments and advanced gas and liquid delivery solutions for the global ... manufactures precision instruments and advanced gas and liquid delivery solutions, including thermal ...

University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago First Hospital to Install Innovative Shape-HF™ Cardiopulmonary Testing System

... designed to objectively measure cardiopulmonary gas exchange in heart failure patients. It can make a ... failure and other cardiopulmonary disease. While gas exchange testing devices have been used for ... Cardiologists know that measuring patient gas exchange is the best method of assessing patient ...

SAFC Hitech & Air Water Inc. Extend High-End Materials Research Services Collaboration to Support Japan Chip Industry

... partnership with leading industrial and medical gas producer, Air Water Inc ., (AWI). Under the ... clean rooms where a wide range of high purity gas and chemical related research is currently ... Inc. (AWI) is a leading Japanese industrial gas supplier, with more than 80 years of experience. ...

China Bio Energy Reports Fourth Quarter and Record 2008 Financial Results

... Finished Oil, Bio-Diesel Production, and Retail gas Stations: Fourth Quarter 2008 Revenue ... 25.3% 18.9% Retail gas Stations $7.5 million N/A ... oil, was approximately 8.3%. The retail gas stations during this same period had a gross ...

New study examines effects of Graniteville, S.C., chlorine gas disaster

... study examining the aftereffects of a chlorine gas disaster in a South Carolina town gives larger ... of the largest community exposures to chlorine gas since World War I," said David Van Sickle, Ph.D., ... a significant challenge a large-scale chlorine gas release poses to health care facilities." Van ...

New Gas Clean Filter Technology From Varian, Inc. Reduces Contamination in GC, ICP and GC/MS

... announces today three significant advances to its gas Clean Filter System, for delivering clean gases ... coupled plasma) operations. New to the gas Clean family is a carbon dioxide filter that ... is expanded and includes the use with collision gas to prevent mass interferences in LC/MS, and for ...

Brooks Instrument's New Mass Flow Controller Series Is Immune to Pressure and Temperature Fluctuations

... "The B-Series sets a new standard in gas mass flow control," stated Steve ... Brooks Instrument. "Whether you are flowing gas to a CVD chamber, chemical research reactor, fuel ... B-Series was designed to minimize all sources of gas flow inaccuracy, giving our customers outstanding ...

Accidental discovery has potential for new applications in packaging

... crystals that reduce by 100 times the amount of gas permeability in all kinds of polymer-based ... the transport through them of even the smallest gas molecules, such as oxygen or carbon dioxide. ... and nylon, have been broadly used as gas barrier films in food, medicine and electronics ...

A supercharged metal-ion generator

... accelerates ions in a plasma typically a noble gas like argon to erode atoms from the target. The ... enough, the ion current does not fall off as the gas is depleted but instead, sustained by ... the target. In the simplest case, a nonreactive gas like argon flows into the chamber and is ionized ...

Semiconducting nanotubes produced in quantity at Duke

... they had used the alcohol ethanol in the feeder gas to provide carbon atoms as building blocks for ... operating a tuning knob." Chemically inert argon gas was used to provide a steady feed of the ethanol ... at an atomic level how "just so" tuning of growth gas mixtures resulted in the right chirality to ...

Enerkem announces first commercial-scale biofuels and biochemicals plant is entering start-up phase

... in December 2008. The conditioned synthesis gas ("syngas") island has been finalized and is in an ... feedstock. "The conditioned synthesis gas island is the core of our technology platform as ... contributing to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by using materials that would otherwise ...

Standard & Poor's Announces Changes to U.S. Indices

... index. Mariner Energy is an oil and gas exploration, development and production company ... will be added to the S&P MidCap 400 GICS Oil & gas Exploration & Production Sub-Industry index. ... Energy Energy Oil & gas ...

New Clinical Studies Presented at the American Society of Anesthesiology (ASA) Annual Meeting Show Masimo Technologies Provide Advanced Clinical Intelligence

... MetHb and SaO2 measurements obtained from blood gas analysis using a laboratory CO-oximeter and found ... of 2.86) was maintained and correlated with blood gas measurements. Researchers concluded that Masimo's ... Measures of SpMet and SpO2 Correlate with Blood gas CO-Oximetry in Neonates. Mitchell R. Goldstein, ....

Understanding the science of solar-based energy: more researchers are better than one

... discovered a catalyst that produces oxygen gas from water. With the assistance of a five-year ... charge and an oxygen catalyst produce oxygen gas and positively charged hydrogen ions or protons ... developed a new catalyst that produces oxygen gas from water. In use with an electrical ...

PerkinElmer Expertise and Solutions Integral to Food Safety Monitoring for the Beijing Games : Methods, Applications Expertise and Instrumentation Deployed in Mobile Laboratory

... PerkinElmer on method development on the Clarus gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer (GC/MS) for the ... development assistance in the areas of gas chromatography (GC), gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS), atomic ...

Alkemists Sets The Bar, Becoming a 'Green' Analytical Laboratory

... of annual electricity, refrigerant and natural gas usage, employee commuting and corporate air ... tons of carbon dioxide, a harmful greenhouse gas and potential significant contributor of global ... emissions created in 2007 and 2008 by the natural gas usage, employee commuting and corporate air ...

Will New Technological Advances Offer Fresh Capabilities for Commercialization and Enhance BTL Investments?

... in gasification of biomass, feeding systems, hot gas cleaning, IGCC syngas upgrading, catalyst ... production of a clean and hydrogen-rich synthesis gas from woody biomass. In line with the 3rd ... summit on technologies like Coal to Liquids, gas to Liquids, and Bio-mass to Liquid, and ...

Edmonton to be site of world's first industrial scale municipal waste-to-ethanol facility

... ethanol is available at more than 1,300 gas stations across Canada. About Enerkem ... Quebec. Enerkem's gasification, sequential gas conditioning and catalysis technology converts ... Landfill, a leachate treatment plant, a landfill gas to electricity system, a construction and ...

Bion Outlines Differences between its Patented Comprehensive Livestock Environmental Treatment Technology and Anaerobic Digesters

... is that they both reduce odor and greenhouse gas emissions while producing renewable energy. ... design and operation. In most instances, the gas produced by the AD system is combusted on-site in ... the livestock wastes to replace the natural gas requirements of the project -- and produce ...

Environmental Power Holds Ground Breaking Ceremony for Renewable Natural Gas Facility at Rio Leche Estates

... to Generate Pipeline-Grade Renewable Natural gas (RNG(R)) from Manure and Other Waste ... to generate methane-rich biogas, condition the gas to natural gas pipeline standards and transport the RNG(R) to ...

Environmental Power Announces Opening of New Corporate Headquarters in Tarrytown, NY

... waste. This biogas can be conditioned to natural gas standards and distributed via a commercial pipeline as renewable natural gas (RNG(R)). Microgy currently operates four ... generate a significant amount of greenhouse gas offset credits. "As we complete this move, we ...

Iowa State researchers developing system to efficiently convert biomass to ethanol

... play an indispensable role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and meeting the rapidly growing demand ... The hydrogen and carbon monoxide in the synthesis gas would be reacted with a nanotechnology-based ... at catalysts to produce ethanol from synthesis gas for years. But there were some problems with the ...

The Recession List - Top 10 Industries to Fly and Flop in 2008

... are: remediation services, mining and oil and gas machinery manufacturing, environmental consulting, collection agencies, and oil and gas extraction. VoIP Leads The Way Subscriber ... in manufacturing machinery for mining and oil and gas fields increase by 9.7 percent this year. Mr. Van ...

GreenField Ethanol and Enerkem Announce Plans to Make Cellulosic Ethanol a Commercial Reality

... model shows that corn ethanol reduces greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) by 40 to 60 per cent compared to ... Enerkem's gasification, sequential gas conditioning and catalysis technology converts ... ethanol is available at more than 1,500 gas stations across Canada. For more information, ...

Enerkem announces progress on construction of Canada's first cellulosic ethanol plant

... phase consists of installing the gasification and gas conditioning equipment, which is at the core of ... technologies, which are limited to using the gas for the production of heat and electricity, Enerkem's synthetic gas is conditioned for use as a chemical feedstock in ...

Setaram Inc. Acquires Hy-Energy LLC

... (Newark, CA), a manufacturer of high performance gas sorption scientific instruments for the ... and enhance their calorimetry line with our gas sorption products," said Dr. Karl Gross, founder ... and high surface-area hydrogen and other gas sorption materials. Hy- Energy's analytical ...

Credit-card-sized platform for volatile compound analysis CAREER project goal

... Blacksburg, Va. Developing a credit-card-sized gas chromatography platform that can analyze volatile ... to be future leaders in their academic fields. gas chromatography is the primary technique used in a ... that appear to be markers for breast cancer. gas chromatography is used in the field of ...

Rounding up gases, nano-style

... A new process for catching gas from the environment and holding it indefinitely ... who say it represents a novel method of gas storage that could yield benefits for capturing, ... come up with a material that mechanically traps gas at high densities without having to use high ...

Berkeley scientists bring MRI/NMR to microreactors

... a technique in which parahydrogen-polarized gas is used to make an MRI signal strong enough to ... bed. This is the first time hyperpolarized gas has been used to directly study catalytic ... At standard temperature and pressure, hydrogen gas exists in one of two molecular forms ortho and ...

Advanced Energy Consortium will develop micro and nanosensors to boost energy production

... nanotechnology applications to increase oil and gas production. The Richard E. Smalley Institute ... Geoscientists believe that more oil and gas can be extracted by improving their understanding ... and physical characteristics of existing oil and gas reservoirs. Using current technology, typically ...

ADM, MGSC and ISGS Announce Carbon Sequestration Project

... Project to study technology to reduce greenhouse gas emissions DECATUR, Ill., Jan. 4 ... technology is one method of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by permanently storing carbon dioxide ... of biofuels by further reducing greenhouse gas emissions." In this project, wells will be ...

A POX on syn

... A way to convert natural gas into raw materials for the chemical industry and ... manufacturing processes. Making synthesis gas - a blend of hydrogen and carbon monoxide - is a key step in turning natural gas or biomass into bulk chemicals, such as acetic ...

Two nanostructures are better than one

... store hydrogen fuel so that it fits into a cars gas tank. Or replacing todays semiconductors with ... together in bulk. Already they have devised a gas sensor using only nanoparticles of tin oxide. ... the process took hours. CNTs are produced in a gas phase from carbon precursors, but nanoparticles ...

DOE awards $377 million in funding for 46 energy frontier research centers

... need to reduce our dependence on imported oil and curtail greenhouse gas emissions," said Secretary Chu. "Meeting the challenge to reduce our dependence on imported oil and curtail greenhouse gas emissions will require significant scientific advances. These centers ...

Enerkem Announces World-Class Advanced Energy Research Center in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

... technology company. It has developed a unique gasification, sequential gas conditioning and catalysis technology platform, capable of using a mix of ... Facility, the Clover Bar Landfill, a leachate treatment plant, a landfill gas to electricity system, a construction and demolition waste recycling ...

Environmental Tectonics Corporation Announces Additional Hyperbaric Monoplace Chamber Sale to St. John Wound Center

... HBO is the primary treatment for carbon monoxide poisoning, arterial gas embolism and decompression sickness. It is also used to promote and ... systems, and Control Systems (CSG) which includes: (1) steam and gas sterilization; (2) testing and simulation devices for the automotive ...

Krohne Announces Podcast on Energy Management

... process conditions) while providing an accurate measure of steam, vapor or gas flow rates with very low pressure drops. This means that less of the ... suited for a variety of industries, including the chemical, oil and gas industries, and also larger commercial institutions such as central or ...

Enerkem GreenField Alberta Biofuels Awarded Permit to Build World's First Commercial Municipal Waste-to-Biofuels Facility

... technology company. It has developed a unique gasification, sequential gas conditioning and catalysis technology platform capable of using a mix of ... ethanol plants. GreenField's ethanol is available at more than 1,300 gas stations across Canada. ...